3 papers
cs.SI2026
Measuring Structural Political Fragmentation
Yuan Zhang, Laia Castro, Frank Esser +1
Political fragmentation denotes the differentiation of a political system into multiple groups and the extent of separation among them. It often manifests structurally in online in…
cs.SI2025
A multilevel network approach to revealing patterns of online political selective exposure
Yuan Zhang, Laia Castro Herrero, Frank Esser +1
Selective exposure, individuals' inclination to seek out information that supports their beliefs while avoiding information that contradicts them, plays an important role in the em…
cs.SI2025
Quantifying the Spread of Online Incivility in Brazilian Politics
Yuan Zhang, Michael Amsler, Laia Castro Herrero +2
Incivility refers to behaviors that violate collective norms and disrupt cooperation within the political process. Although large-scale online data and automated techniques have en…